OHIO STATE TO MEET CREIGHTON IN 2018 GAVITT GAMES

COLUMBUS, Ohio–The Big Ten and BIG EAST Conferences announced the matchups for the fourth-annual Gavitt Tipoff Games, with eight men’s basketball contests set for Nov. 13-16, 2018. Game times and television assignments will be announced at a later date.

Ohio State will travel to Creighton Nov. 15. This will be the Buckeyes’ second appearance in the event. Providence College traveled to Ohio State Nov. 17, 2016, for a matchup the Buckeyes won 72-67.

C.J. Jackson and Micah Potter are the only Buckeyes on the 2018-19 roster who played in the game vs. the Friars. Potter, who just completed his sophomore season in Columbus, played just four minutes while Jackson, who will be a senior next year, played five. Neither scored in the game.

Chris Holtmann, now in his second season with the Buckeyes, coached in the BIG EAST at Butler prior to taking over the Ohio State program as its head coach last June.

In six meetings with Creighton, Holtmann is 3-3 vs. the Bluejays. Ohio State is 5-3 in the all-time series against Creighton. The teams last faced one another Nov. 24, 2004, in the Guardians Classic in Kansas City, Missouri. The Bluejays outlasted the Buckeyes 65-63 in overtime.

Ohio State is 34-16 all-time vs. current members of the BIG EAST Conference.

In Holtmann’s first season at Ohio State, the Buckeyes finished 25-9 overall with a 15-3 record in Big Ten Conference regular-season play. Ohio State finished second in the conference standings, earning a No. 2 seed in the 2018 Big Ten Tournament.

The Buckeyes traveled to Boise, Idaho, as the No. 5 seed in the West Regional of the 2018 NCAA Tournament.

Creighton ended the 2017-18 season 21-12 with a 10-8 record in the Big East.

The Gavitt Tipoff Games is a unique early-season series played between the two conferences and named in honor of Dave Gavitt, founder of the BIG EAST and basketball visionary.

The 2018 Gavitt Tipoff Games schedule:

Tuesday 11/13

Wisconsin at Xavier

Georgetown at Illinois

Wednesday 11/14

Michigan at Villanova

Seton Hall at Nebraska

Marquette at Indiana

Thursday 11/15

Penn State at DePaul

Ohio State at Creighton

Friday 11/16

St. John’s at Rutgers
Scheduled through 2022, the Gavitt Tipoff Games is played on consecutive days in the first full week of the college basketball season. The series spans eight years, with games played at home sites. Each BIG EAST team will participate a minimum of six times, while Big Ten programs will take part a minimum of four times.

The unique series between the two conferences is named to honor the late Gavitt, who had a profound and lasting influence on the sport of basketball on the collegiate, professional and Olympic levels. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Noting the Ohio State vs. Creighton Series
Ohio State opened the all-time series with the Bluejays at Creighton Dec. 21, 1936, winning 35-28. The Buckeyes are 1-2 in Omaha, Nebraska, 4-0 in Columbus and 0-1 at a neutral site in the series.